Spring Swing Tuesday and Wednesday
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Men Plan To Vote Thursday
The Official Student Paper of the University of Kansas
VOLUME XXXV
NUMBER 128
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Musical Revue Swings Out Tuesday Night
LAWRENCE KANSAS SUNDAY. APRIL 3, 1938
‘Spring Swing’ Is New
Sell Out, May Run Extra
Night if Ticket Sales
Continue To Increase
Two days of intensive practice, concluding with dress rehearsal to tomorrow night, will put finishing touches on "Spring Swing," Sigma Delta Chl's musical revue which takes Tuesday night in Praiser the theater.
Director Rolla Nuckles will return from a tour with the "Winterest" cast to supervise the final rehearsal
he wore with the "Winterstet cast to supervise the final rehearsals. Because advance ticket sales have indicated the show will be a virtual event, Wednesday and Wednesday nights, Jim Coleman, producer, said last night that a showing Thursday night was being considered. A definite announcement on the Thursday presentation will be made Tuesday. Coleman said.
The revue is the first of its kind or the Campus in several years. It is not in operetta form, for there is no plot. A W.S.G.A. production in 1830 was along the former lines. No revue was presented last year.
First of Its Kind
Possibility that "Spring Swing" may be taken on the road for a tour of large cities is yet to be decided.
Tentative showings have been arranged, under the sponsorship of various university organizations, but no actual plans have been completed.
Music for the show has been written entirely by students, and the revue is a complete student production from the producer down to the student. The songs of song writers is Bill Miesner, c.38 son of W. Otto Miesner, head of the department of public school music in the School of Fine Arts.
Modern Choir Featured
A feature which will figure prominently in the show is Ross Robertson's Modern Choir. The choir was organized last year and a male vocal group has been bolstered by female voices for the revue.
The latter part of the show is a night club scene. Dialogue for this act was prepared by Martin Maloney, dramatizes director. The choreo-visual team has been trained by Jayro Costs, £39, who arranged the dances.
As musical director, Red Black-burn, with the assistance of Bud Frink, e'38, and Don Wood, b'39, has arranged orchestrations of the "Spring Swing" tunes. Blackburn also will direct the combined band in the show. Woods, accompainist for the Modern Choir, has arranged several of the solo tunes. Rich has scored several of the solute tunes.
Second Radio Preview
Two radio previews of the production have been presented over Kansas City stations the past week Yesterday, KMBC broadcast a half-hour program of six numbers from the show. The Modern Choir song "Awake in a Dream," by Missner and "I Led With My Heart" by Ernie Sanders, c'unel, and Doug Tarbet fa4. 50. Solosists with the group were Keith Eason, fa38, Foster Parrot, e38, and Alice Marie Mcyre, fa49.
Three solosists from the cast were presented in their numbers in the show. Dorothy Fritz, c', spang "Illusion" by Miesner; and Alice Marie Meyn was heard in another Miesner composition, "Halway to Heaven". Eddie Singleton, c', spang Miesner's "Lazy Eyes." The program was completed with a quartet number, "I Love You So," by Anna Marie Tompkins. Members of the quartet were Glenda Speakman, c', 39; Fenion Durand, c', 49; Clyde Smith, b'39; and Gene Haughey, t'38.
Organist Plays Today In Graduate Recital
Dorothy LaVon Rumbeep, gr, can didate for the master of music degree in organ, will give her graduate recital this afternoon at 4 o'clock in Hoch auditorium. She is a pupil from Laurel of Laured Eve Anderson.
She has both her bachelor of arts and bachelor of music degrees from Ottawa University. She began her work in organ for the advanced degree at the University in the fall of 1936. She will present 'numbers Martini and Bach, and will close her symphony with "Fifth Symphony for Organ" (Vierne), playing the complete work with its five movements.
Miss Bumbeek is an associate of the American Guild of Organists. She maintains a private studio of organ and piano in Ottawa, is oratory faculty at the University and directs the children's choir of the First Methodist Church there.
Burglar *T a kes Goods*
Valued Over $300 From
Moodu Apartments
Betty Stephenson, c 40, and Kay Stephenson, m 41, lost a portable typewriter and winter and spring clothing valued at more than $300 when their apartment in Moody apartments at Fourteenth and Tennessee was burglarized Friday afternoon.
Two Women Are Robbed
A man entered the apartment about 3:30 by opening the service door to the kitchen and pushing aside an electric ice box. He was seen by Tony Immel, 138, and Raymond Comkin, bunkl, who live in the town. They were able to give a description of him to the police.
The two women, whose home is in Kansas City, had no theft insurance on their belongings. They are nieces of Johnson, Kansas City insurance man.
Immel was instrumental in preferring charges against a group captured by Lawrence and Kansas City police which had terrorized the Hillary Clinton campaign, their holding had stolen possession valued at more than $2000.
High and Tibbets In Joint Recital
Corine High, fa38, and Helen Tibbets, fa38, will present a joint program of piano music at 8 o'clock on Monday evening in the auditorium of Frank Strong hall, as the regular music resuit.
The program is as follows
“Concerto No. 2 in D minor,” ingrighte calmoat (MacDowell), by Cormire High, with Prof Carl Fine of School of Fine Arts at the second piano.
"Prelude in G sharp minor"
(Rachmanniof); "Prelude in G majo-
r), (Rachmanniof); and "Hungarua-
d", (Nom. No. 12). "(Lzst),
by Helen Tibbets."
"Spinning Song," from the Suite "I Brittany," (Rhene-Baton); "General Laven," a dance in the style of a Cake-walk, (Debussy); and "Scherzo in B minor," (Chopin), by Corrine High.
Dr. J. O. Perrine of the American Telephone and Telegraph company is scheduled to present a lecture and demonstration entitled "Waves, Words, and Wires," the night of April 22 in Fraser theater.
"Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor",
(Tschaikowsky): 'by Helen Tibbets
Perrine To Lecture On Waves Words
This lecture is sponsored by Sigma Xi and the University student branch of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers.
H. E. Chandler, professor of education and director of the Teachers Appointment Bureau, announces 36, and A. R. Young, 37.
Miss Robertson will teach music next year at Lebanon, and Young who has been science teacher and teacher at the high school principal at Anthony
Announces Placements
SENIOR PICTURES
Senior please stop in Jaya-
hawker office, third floor of Mem-
eral Union building, some
days back to fill out information
cards.
BOB PEARSON, Jayhawker Magazine
Rayburn Compromises WithHouse
Reorganization Measure
Is Assured Immediate
Passage A f f e r Advice
From President
Washington, April 2. —(UP)—President Roosevelt's leader, Rayburn, faced with a spreading revolt in the house, agreed tonight to a compromise government reorganization bill. The action was believed to have assured prompt passage of the controversial measure.
The compromise would allow congress to disapprove presidential orders for abolition or reorganization if government agencies by a simple means were instead of a two-thirds vote as provided in the original administration draft.
The compromise was offered after telephone consultation with the President at Warm Springs, Ga House leaders denied that Mr. Roosevelt had specifically accepted the modifications.
Monday the house will temporarily lay aside the bill for other business. When it resumes consideration of the reorganization measure, either late Monday or Tuesday, it will continue with virtually not limitations on debate and no indication when general discussion will be concluded Speaker William Bankhead, house Major Leader Sam Rayburn, and Chairman Lindsay Warren (Demo, N.C.), of the house reorganization committee, agreed to offer the compromise after being fought to a standstill by a coalition of Democrats and Republicans.
Fine Arts School Elects Briggs
The School of Fine Arts held its annual election Thursday. The newly elected officers will be in office for the Fine Arts Doy, Wednesday, May 4.
The election results were as follows: president, Robert Briggs, fa38 vice-president, Barbara Kirchhoff fa38 secretary, Carl Johnson, fa38 treasurer, Georgia Sue Rueber, fa38 chairman, Faye Fa39 was chairman of the voting.
Dr. Noel P. Gist, assistant of sociology, who is on leave of absence at the University of Missouri, has accepted a permanent position there
An all-school convocation will be planned for Fine Arts Day, followed by a banquet to be held at the National Union building that evening.
Because of the confusion of previous election days at the office of the men's student adviser, all identification cards or other credentials to vote, other than classification slips from the registrar, must be precurred before next Thursday, election day on January 16. In case, may be obtained election day at the registrar's office.
GET VOTING INDENTIFICATION
HENRY WERNER.
Men's Student Adviser
Plana for a definite program of activity will be discussed by the "Payne Ratner for Governor" Club at a meeting tomorrow evening in the men's lounge of the Memorial Union. The club will be sponsored by a committee of 16 student Republican leaders of the Campus.
New Ratner Club Meets Tomorrow Night
Announcement of the formation of the club was made last Friday by the committee and was explained as an effort to unite the many student friends of Senator Rattner into a strong organization to support him as a candidate for Governor. Rattner is a graduate of the Uai-
At the request of the Kansas, Doctor Davis presents a case for Japan in the Far Eastern conflict, to which a renewed public interest of Amer- ica has been raised by Chinese airplanes on the Japanese island of Formosa.
Ratner is a graduate of the University. This club is the first one to be organized in the state.
If propaganda; disregarding it good and evil aspects, can be defined as the dissemination of information with the purpose of influencing pub-
Again the anonymous donor has sent a check, making it possible to arrange an exchange of students with a German university.
Send Student To Germany
The University committee, of which Dr. J. H. Nelson is chairman, is beginning its search for a suitable faculty to continue his university next year for a year of study.
Enron's Nora. This article is the first of a series by Ursula Duras dealing with condicioning, having spent some time in Germany and then in New York. Her interviewed for the material, he long been interested in Oriental politics and has having spent some time in the territory.
Doctor Davis has studied am, taught the history of the Far East for many years. He has travelled and observed conditions and the peoples of both Japan and China. It is his belief that the endurement of human complexity but that some factors are demonstrable.
Propaganda Influences America
The committee will receive from the general exchange committee in New York applications of German students wishing to come to the United States and will make a selec- tion for the scholarship at the University.
America Fertile Ground For Chinese Propaganda
W11 Select Exchange Scholar To Represent University Soon
By Carola Sherry, c. 40 "America is fallow ground for Chinese propaganda," asserts Dr. W. W Davis, head of the department of history, in discussing the Sino-Japanese situation.
The committee feels that the student selected should be a suitable representative of the University. Whoever is appointed must be between the ages of 21 and 30, and must have, by the time he sails for Germany, a degree from the University. He must be able to use the German language "factoriously," and know both the German people, and be a personable individual, able easily to mingle with others.
Doctor Nelson asks that any senior or graduate student interested in obtaining next year's appointment see him, or another member of the committee. Members are: Dean E. B. Stouffer, Prof. Otto Springer, W. J. Bawngartner, Prof. W. E Sandelius, and Prof. R. Q. Burger.
John Coleman of Atchison is the Johns student in Germany this year, and the German exchange student is Claus Hothusen of Hamburg.
Seniors or Graduates Eligible
The first of these exchange sch-
arships was held by Lee Seifert
Greene of Mankato in 1930-31.
To Select Suitable Representative
The new officers of the Sasak
Club elected last Thursday are:
president, Dean Nesmith, ed40;
vice-president, Mary Laut Kettler,
Colin Max, Max Rapiati,
ed40; and secretary, John Rath
Henry, ed'unch.
By Uarda Sherry, c'40
Dean Nesmith Is New Sasnak President
lie opinion, then America has been subject to the influences of Chinese propaganda.
Doctor Davis attributes this in part to the strong pervasive missionary interests of American churches in China and to the fact that the balance of sympathy usually lies with an invaded country. Added to this is the fact that the sources of war in America were the Sino-Japanese conflict were located in China, hence under Chinese control.
Doctor Davis bases the case for Japan on political, cultural and economic grounds. The three interests are closely bound together. Politically, Japan's primary objective in the war, it seems to him, is the establishment of a new government in China.
Accordingly as Japanese victories mounted in China, war news from Chinese cities decreased proportionately. This has been explained on the basis of news of new embarking of news followed Japanese control of principal cities.
Davis Bases Japan's Case
He does not think that Japan
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Party Leaders Will Meet With Lindley Tomorrow T o Examine Petition of P.S.G.L.
Chancellor To Decide Legality
Final decision on the legality of the disputed P.S.L. GLET to appoint a redistricting committee will be left to Chancellor E. H. Lindley, working with three representatives from each party tomorrow at 2:30 p.m.
The Chancellor, as chairman of the Men's Student Council advisory committee, is the final authority in approving the M.S.C. constitution. The meeting was arranged by Moe Ettenson, b38, secretary of the council.
THE ISSUES
The dispute arose following a council meeting last Tuesday night at which President Don Voorhees, c38, acting on a petition from the Progressive Student Government League, appointed a non-partisan
If the amendment is in effect:
1. The petition is valid.
2. A question is raised over the legality of previous acts of the council which were not done in accordance with the provisions of the amendment, such as seating of members to fill vacancies created by inclusibility.
2. The act of the president in appointing a committee to investigate disciering is invalid. parts of the amendment are in effect.
1. The netition is invalid.
Then the dispute will not be settled until a decision is made concerning what sections of the amendment are in force.
committee from the council to con-erable possible changes in the election system as set up by the amendment. The first time in Thursday's voting
Whether the amendment, approved last spring to institute sweeping changes in the method of choosing the M.S.C. is now in force, is the question to be decided in tomorrow's conference.
If the amendment is not in effect until after the election Thursday, President Voorhees should have acted on the petition under the existing constitution provisions. If the amendment is not in effect, the legislation is legally appointed and may consider changes in the membership of University schools.
Commission Will Meet
Meowhile, Wilbur Leonard, c 39, chairman of the council committee appointed by Voorhees Tuesday night, has issued a tentative call for a tentative meeting of that group for 3:30 tomorrow. It is probable, however, that no actions will be taken by the committee until a decision on the committee's legality is reached by the Chancellor.
Charges made last week by Ettenson were based on an opinion by Charles Springer, Douglas county attorney, that the amendment was not in effect. Springer made his ruling at the request of Etterson. Etenson said That the petition was not delivered to him two days before the council meeting, and under the preset M.S.C. constitution, should have received no action at last Tuesday's meeting.
Decision of Significance
a greater significance than merely the technical question of the validity of PS.GL's petition, however, will come with the Chancellor's decision. If Doctor Lindley rules that the amendment has been in force throughout the past year, then the method of filling the large number of council vacancies this year has been incorrect. What it really means is that under the new system, Pachas' authority throughout the year. It is doubtful, however, in the event of such a ruling, that any attempt will be made to discount the actions of the PS.GL-controlled body.
In a statement made last night regarding the disputed petition, Ettenson emphasized his contention that the petition was invalid.
Ettenson Not Unsympathetic
"I am not contending that the idea of the petition is repugnant to me for I am not unsympathetic with an investigation of the present distracting being made by a non-partisan group," Ettison stated. "My question is—has a majority party the preoperative and power to cast aside
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William Lindsay Young, president of Park College at Parkville, Mo., will discuss "The Church and Education" at the regular meeting of Westmister Student forum this evening at 7:30 in Westmister hall. The department will commence yesterday by Wallis Campbell c'40, publicity manager.
The meeting is a rally of all young people of the Presbyterial Young People's league of the Topeka presbytery. The meeting will open at 3:30 in the afternoon and close with Dr. Yound's discussion.
President Young was formerly director of university work with the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education, and has served as student pastor at the University of Montana.
Shoewe Heads Scientists
Presides as President of K an s a s Academy of Science
Dr. W. H. Schoewe, associate professor of geology, became president of the Kansas Academy of Science at the closing business session of the state convention held at Pittsburg yesterday.
Dr. Harry H. Hall of the Pittsburgh State Teachers College was named president-elect and will take office at the convention next year in Lawrence. Wichita has bid for the 1940 meeting.
Other officers elected are: Dr. E. Mo. Decere of Bethany College, vice-president; Dr. Roger Smith of Kansas State College, re-elected secretary; Dr H. A. Zinsser of Fort Hays State College, re-elected treasurer; Dr George Dean of Kansas State College, the retiring president, Dr Lawrence Oncley of Southwestern College and Dr R. H. Wheeler of the University, additional members of the executive council. Dr F. C. Gates of Kansas State College were re-elected editor:
War Is Forum Topic
Davis and Harrison Will Discuss the Individual and Pacifism
Robert McNair Davis, professor of law, and Rev. Carter Harrison, rector of the Trinity Episcopal church, will oppose each other in a second of series of four forums, entitled "The Individual and War", Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock in the men's lounge of the Memorial Union building. The commencement made yesterday by David Angevine, c29, chairman of the United Peace Committee, sponsoring organization.
Professor Davis will uphold the viewpoint that the individual should support every action toward the collective security of all nations. The Rev. Mr. Harrison will advocate absolute pacifism in case of war.
This forum was to have been held last Wednesday, according to a decision of the United Student Peace committee March 14, but because of difficulty in securing speakers was postponed until Tuesday.
"The committee hoped to offer a speaker who would advocate the viewpoint in open forum that the individual should support an army and navy built on a parity with other nations," said Angevine, "but after asking five whom they felt were the best in position, and being refused, the committee decided not to postpone the forum any longer."
This series of forums is an attempt on the part of the committee to direct sentiment toward the peace strike. April 22.
Eleanor Slaten, c38, retiring president of the Y.W.C.A.i will serve as chairman.
Y.M.C.A. To Discuss Politics
ATTENDANCE BY INVITATION
A panel discussion of Hill politics in the Y.M.C.A. offices will be conducted by four members of the freshman Y.M.C.A. council: Rowland Hays, c'41; Brent Campbell, c'41; Charles Wright, c'41; and Robert Brown, c'41. The discussion is planned for 4:30 Monday afternoon.
RUTH FENGEL
Attendance at the one-reel comedy film sponsored by the Creative Learn group at Hempstead will be invited by invitation only.
Dr. Bagley Criticises Curricula
Says It Is Injustice To Pass a Student Without Preparation for His New Work
"We have the蛲es that follow from promotion 'on schedule.' It is an injustice to the individual to let them leave the job in preparation for his new work."
"We have always attached a sort of sense of permanent disability to persons who fail, whether in school or in life," asserted Dr. Bugley.
Thus Dr. William D. Bagley of Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, started his discussion of "The Program of the Essentials," before approximately 600 Kansas educators, Saturday after midday, in general session of the spring Educational Conference at the University.
Encourage Promising Students
"When we study the development of men who have received distinction in the world," said Dr. Bagley, "in a great many cases we find that they are less able to come the handicap of early failures." Encourage Promising Students
"Just as far as possible we should encourage those, who have any promise at all, to attempt those subjects in the secondary school program that are exacting and exact," say Bagley. "It is unjust to them to encourage them to follow the lines of least resistance."
Dr. Bagley told the group that he was classed as an essentialist and having been given the coat he must wear it as well as possible. He would have to teach sympathetic discipline and intelligent guidance are a child's right.
"Essentialists," he said, "do not dodge the word 'discipline' nor do they dodge the word 'duty'."
When freedom of speech goes the end is near stated Dr. Bagley, reminding the group that it took many years, a lot of hard work, and a great deal of bloodshed to freeedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom of press; then he pointed out that it would take many years, a lot of hard work, and a great deal of bloodshed to regain them if they were once lost.
"Age for age, the average pupil in our elementary schools does not meet the standards of achievement in fundamentals of education that we have taught. Our secondary schools of many other countries, said Bagley, yesterday morning.
"In the most extended investigation of this type," he maintained, "the differences revealed are so wide as to justify no other inference than that achievement is far below what it could be and what it should be.
"It is obviously impossible for non-selective, masters schools to achieve average accomplishments in the pupil-population in which the pupil-population represents in general only the higher brackets of mental ability.
"Failures in such high school studies as mathematics and natural science are in many cases traceable to the fact that pupils cannot read effectively. Classes in 'remedial' reading are now necessary on the secondary level to bring pupils to a standard of literacy that primary and intermediate-basic instruction could and should have insulted."
Factors Are Unparalleled
Rapid growth in population, constantly advancing frontier, increase in national wealth, immigration increases, racial differences, profound changes in the origin from predominantly agrarian to a predominantly industrial civilization, the growth of cities, and increasing mobility of the population, he said, are some of the factors which operate on this country with which we unprecedented in history and unexplored in any other part of the world.
"The theories which emphasized interest, freedom, immediate needs, personal experience, neurodevelopment organization and pupil-inflictive," he said. "The final specific impression today in a variety of movements."
Outstanding Movements
Some of the most outstanding of these movements, according to Bagley, are. The complete abandonment in many school systems of rigorous instruction as a condition of promotion, and passing all pupils "on schedule"; the disarrayment of system and sequence in learning; the wide vogue
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